2021-09-13

Cool

• Epiousios

  • "Give us now our ???? bread"

• Trichome and stomata on a southern live oak leaf | 2021 Photomicrography Competition | Nikon’s Small World

etc

• Congress calls for permanent office to address UAPs

• Census Bureau’s Survey Shows Significant Increase in Homeschooling Rates

• Amid driver shortage, Massachusetts National Guard activated to drive busses

Horseshit

• Barnyard breakthrough: Researchers successfully potty train cows

• A New Company with a Wild Mission: Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth

• A Year After Sending Cops To A Kid’s Home, A Colorado Springs School District Apologizes.

  On Aug. 27, 2020, as students, educators and parents across the state adjusted to pandemic remote learning, an art teacher spotted what she believed to be a toy gun on Isaiah Elliott’s screen. The incident led to his suspension — which has since been reversed — and to school leaders sending two school resource officers to the boy’s home.

• No talking during lunch and other joys of Covid schooling

• Scorned wife raids ex-husband’s cryogenics lab, stealing frozen brains

celebrity gossip

• The Man Behind Critical Race Theory Archive link

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• The desexualization of the Asian American male

• My startup has an unofficial hiring policy based on race. Is this normal/legal? | Hacker News

• Alabama man dies after being turned away from 43 hospitals as Covid packs ICUs

  • HN thread

• Four-year-old girl dies of Covid after anti-vaxxer mom contracts virus

• US surgeon general defends not requiring vaccines for planes

• Wokeness: An Evil of Our Age › American Greatness

• There's An Insane "Australia-Style" Lockdown Happening Right Now In The US - by Michael Tracey - Michael Tracey

• What would it take for antivaxxers and climate science deniers to ‘wake up’?

• Is virtue signalling a perversion of morality?

• A hospital won’t deliver babies after staffers resigned over coronavirus vaccine

• California professor sues Univ. over vaccine mandate, citing natural immunity

• Racist Emojis Are the Latest Test for Facebook, Twitter Moderators

• Far-right extremism: An overlooked cost of the war on terror

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Fact-checking works to undercut misinformation in many countries

• 'They' are controlling you. 'They' are silencing you - Washington Times

• Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All. Documents Reveal an Elite That’s Exempt

• Ben Stein: I've Been Suspended by YouTube

• The FEC dismisses claims that Twitter illegally blocked Hunter Biden article

• YouTube takes down the Ig Nobel show because of a 1914 recording

TechSuck

• The Apple v. Epic Decision – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

  • Epic appeals against Apple App Store ruling

• Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Windows

• Intel issues end-of-life notice for RealSense Lidar

• Intuit to Acquire Mailchimp for $12b

Economicon

• Litecoin Soars After WalMart Announces Partnership "To Make Online Shopping Easy" For All | ZeroHedge

  + [Walmart has not partnered with Litecoin, despite
  reports](https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/117494/walmart-has-not-partnered-with-litecoin-despite-reports)
  

  • Walmart Denies Litecoin Pact After Hoax Jolts Crypto Market

• Man wins $65K after being fired for refusing to be fingerprinted

• "Absolutely Incredible": It Costs 68 New Ferraris To Rent A 12-Year-Old Container Ship For Just Three Months | ZeroHedge

• Revolt of the NYC Delivery Workers

• Apple Loses $85B in Value After App Store Ruling

Poilitcks

• Poll Finds Plurality Support (46% vs. 43%) for the Texas Heartbeat Act

• California Republicans Shocked To Discover They've 'Already Voted' In Recall Election | ZeroHedge

  • San Fernando Valley residents have trouble casting recall ballots

Crime / Police

• County I.T. Supervisor Mined Bitcoin at the Office, Prosecutors Say

• Man arrested with bayonet and machete near US Capitol

  • Capitol Fence to return in advance of Sept. 18 'J6' rally

Security / Militaria

• Biden Administration Orders Ideological Purge Of U.S. Military Academies

• Al Qaeda Leader Appears In New Video Marking 9/11, Despite Death Rumors | ZeroHedge

• The 9/11 Era is over. Good. - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion

World

• Evergrande Crisis Escalates as Protests Break Out in China

• Energy Prices in Europe Hit Records After Wind Stops Blowing

• Uber must employ its drivers, Dutch court rules

• France grants citizenship to 12,000 Covid frontline workers

• Why are coups making a comeback in Africa?

• In fresh regulatory move, China tells tech giants to stop blocking rivals' links

• The UN wants 600 mil for Afghanistan

• Portugal’s Sardine Capitalism Is a Post-Pandemic Economic Model

• Australian gov to use facial recognition and GPS tracking to enforce quarantine

  • South Australia to expand use of facial recognition Covid-19 home quarantine app

• Alleged right-wing extremist charged over blueprint to 3D-print a gun

• Ukrainian Judge Involved in Sheremet Murder Case Found Dead Outside Kyiv

• Ghana: Move to stop consumption of cats and dogs sparks outrage

Health / Medicine / COVID

• It may take 'many, many' more vaccine mandates to end the Covid-19 pandemic

• When hospitals run out of beds, here's how they ration care

• How the FDA crippled America's response to Covid-19

• Covid-19 Vaccine Boosters Are Not Necessary Yet, Say Top Health Officials

• Good News from CDC on Delta Variant, Covid Pandemic

  As of the end of May, the combined vaccine and infection seroprevalence (indicating the proportion of the population with antibodies and some level of immune protection) was 83 percent for those 16 and older (children under 16 can’t donate blood). Over 20 percent had antibodies indicating an earlier infection and recovery. Based on the infection-induced seroprevalence, the researchers estimated that there were actually 2.1 infections per reported Covid-19 case.

• UAMS Research Team Finds Potential Cause of COVID-19 ‘Long-haulers’ | UAMS News

  “Everything that we’ve found is consistent with this antibody as the instigator of long COVID, so it’s an exciting development that merits further study,” Arthur said. The antibody creates problems for the immune system by attacking the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2). The ACE2 enzyme helps regulate the body’s response to the virus by metabolizing a peptide that activates the immune system.

• WHO: Low-Income Countries Still Lack Enough Covid-19 Vaccines

• Too many American kids grow up in almost sterile environments

• Drugs mimicking effects of cigarette smoke reduce Covid's ability to enter cells

• Opioids and Cigarettes Are Both Harmful, but Opioids Have Valid Medical Uses

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Record number of environmental activists murdered

  • It Was The Deadliest Year Ever For Land And Environmental Activists

• Scientists scramble to harvest ice cores as glaciers melt

• Flash flood risk grows as Tropical Storm Nicholas takes aim

• Get ready for climate-change 'emergency' lockdowns

• Rain on Greenland’s ice sheet for the first time ever known. Alarms should ring

• Australia is shaping up to be the villain of COP26 climate talks